Good Morning Friends, Ok we are on a forty-day journey to practice being married to God and if we are going to get anything out of it, we must be all in the experience recognizing the arch of our lives with God has a purpose of showing others the Door…the Gateway of entry to the … Continue reading Will We Allow God’s Love To Make Us Sacred?
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Will Our Repentant Hearts Find Beauty In The Burnt Palms This Ash Wednesday?
Good Morning Friends, Ashes were used in Old Testament times to symbolize mourning, mortality, and penance. But for agrarian societies ashes were also a way of fertilizing crops. People like Job in the Old Testament wore sackcloth and ashes to proclaim their desire to repent. So, ashes are not just an outward sign but have a purpose … Continue reading Will Our Repentant Hearts Find Beauty In The Burnt Palms This Ash Wednesday?
How Are You Investing Your Life?
Good Morning Friends, Well if you are like me on this Fat Tuesday I am enjoying life but also taking stock of my life for I am in the process of putting all my tax documents together to take to the CPA to prepare my tax filings for last year. On those things sold in … Continue reading How Are You Investing Your Life?
What Do We Need To Give Up In Order To Follow Jesus And Become More Holy?
Good Morning Friends, In the few years of Christ’s earthly ministry, He held many conversations. The Gospels record only a portion of those exchanges, suggesting that those discussions chosen for inclusion in the Bible are of great significance to us, and we should pay close attention to the lessons there for us. Jesus’ dialogues with … Continue reading What Do We Need To Give Up In Order To Follow Jesus And Become More Holy?
What Can We Learn From Our Triune God About How To Treat People We Do Not Like?
Good Morning Friends, Columbus on his third trip to the New World discovered what he thought initially were three islands but as he sailed closer it became clear that the three mountains were at sea level connected and he could see them as one. Columbus named the island Trinidad, which in Spanish is the word for … Continue reading What Can We Learn From Our Triune God About How To Treat People We Do Not Like?
Are We Willing To Stop Grumbling?
Good Morning Friends, Patience and being straightforward kind of go together to help make a happy marriage. Marriage and children go together too, for the scripture right after today’s discussion about marriage in the Gospel of Mark is about children. But there is a message here about our spiritual journey and the work of the … Continue reading Are We Willing To Stop Grumbling?
Who Pays For People’s Greed And Lack Of Humor When We Fail to Act?
Good Morning Friends, Some of my Catholic friends this time of the year have been known to celebrate the life of Pope Hilarius with a little more jocularity than you might expect. Pope Hilarius died on February 29th more than 1500 years ago. But because Pope Francis the current Pope is in his fourth, and now … Continue reading Who Pays For People’s Greed And Lack Of Humor When We Fail to Act?
What Is Our Life?
Good Morning Friends, If the Lord does not return first, all of us will die someday. And my guess is that it will come much quicker than expected. Life goes by so unbelievable fast, so it is pointless to boast about our plans for tomorrow. For we could be disappointed or worse yet dead. The … Continue reading What Is Our Life?
What Is Our Life?
Good Morning Friends, If the Lord does not return first, all of us will die someday. And my guess is that it will come much quicker than expected. Life goes by so unbelievable fast, so it is pointless to boast about our plans for tomorrow. For we could be disappointed or worse yet dead. The … Continue reading What Is Our Life?
Is The Holy Spirit Gently Influencing You To Convert Others?
Good Morning Friends, I would suggest to you this morning that spiritual influence is more than a force born out of our thoughts and feelings but that sometimes we can be a tangible palpable force that can be applied either positively or negatively, all based on relationships and at least in part on our response … Continue reading Is The Holy Spirit Gently Influencing You To Convert Others?
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